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What time does your 3mo go to bed for the night? I need advice - he's ballistic every night from 7-

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Normal routine at our house is this: Carson (3yo) gets a bath at 7pm, has a snack and is in bed by 8pm.

Bennett (3 mo) will take a short nap around 5pm, but then is up from 5:30 onward. He absolutely refuses to take another cat nap after this even though he is exhausted and fussing his head off.

I have been putting Bennett in the tub with Carson, sending Carson downstairs for his snack with DH while I try to nurse Bennett to sleep.  He will go down around 8pm, enough time for me to tuck Carson in and have dinner with DH, but only sleeps for about 30 minutes.  Then he's up and still a wee bit fussy (but not screaming) but won't nurse back to sleep bc he just ate.  Therefore I'm juggling him until about 10 or so when he'll finally nurse back to sleep.

I can't keep him up from 5:30-8:30  bc he literally goes ballistic and I have to shovel my dinner in my face (we can't eat earlier bc we both work). Plus it's not fair to him nor Carson who is trying to wind down for the night.  If he took another short nap in the evening, I could nurse him to sleep around 8:30 and he'd be in bed no later than 9:30 for the night.  But he refuses to do so anymore.  He's been sttn for quite a while now.

So....do I just keep up with the bath and nurse to sleep at 7:30/8:00 with the hopes that one day he'll get it and it will be his bedtime?  Or am I missing something?

My lord two kids are hard to manage!

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  • cdg0819cdg0819

    What time are they waking up in the morning? How often do they nap duringthe day?

    I would try moving up bedtime... it helped us. Good luck!

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  • KristySnyderKristySnyder

    DS goes to bed between 7pm and 9pm... sleeps till about 3am or 4am...eats then back to sleep till about 7 or 8am :)

    naps around9:30am, 1:15pm and 4:30/5....times change if were not home or he don't feel well.

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  • Jaimers375Jaimers375
    DS is a little over 2 and a half, he goes to bed around 7:30/7:45, for a while, DD was going to bed right around that time, or around 8.  Lately she has been passing out around 6:30 or 7 and sleeps 12 hours at night. She sometimes takes like a 20 minute nap around 5, but that's pretty rare anymore, if she is fussy around dinner time, I just walk around with her while DS eats, it works out fine.  I would say move the bed time up, there's no sense in forcing him to stay awake when he's clearly tired.  
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  • ashf4iashf4i
    My DS is 4mos, but his routine hasn't changed much.  He takes a short nap around 5pm also, then is up until about 6:30 or 7pm when he is sleepy and starts fussing.  I just started feeding him and putting him down for the night anywhere from 6:30 to 7:30, he usually won't make it past then.  If his feeding schedule is off for whatever reason or he just isn't hungry, i use a pacifier and he will go right down.  Will wake to eat and then go right back.  Hope this helps, goodluck!!
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  • kafunderkafunder member
    It sounds like your 3mo needs an earlier bedtime for sure. At 3mo, our LOs went to bed at 8pm, but we started bedtime/wind down time at 7:30pm.  If they got tired before that, we'd put them down earlier. We currently put them down between 6:30pm-7pm.
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  • novembr2remembrnovembr2remembr
    Thank you - I agree.  I'll keep up with the 7:00 bath, 7:30 feeding and 8:00 bed time.  Since he's up after 30 minutes of sleep though, I'll just have to work on keeping him down - a lot easier said then done!
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  • cdg0819cdg0819

    imagenovembr2remembr:
    Thank you - I agree.  I'll keep up with the 7:00 bath, 7:30 feeding and 8:00 bed time.  Since he's up after 30 minutes of sleep though, I'll just have to work on keeping him down - a lot easier said then done!

    What about trying to move all this up a half hour? so a 6 or 6:30 bath, 7 feeding and then 7:30 bed? I just read a book that says to get LO to sleep better move their bedtimes up. 

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  • kafunderkafunder member

    If your baby is only sleeping for 30 minutes and then goign to sleep, it generally means they need an earlier bedtime. He is getting overtired by the time you're putting him down, so he'll sleep for a few minutes but he's so "wired" by then that he can't stay asleep. Try an earlier bedtime and that may help.

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    imageKristySnyder:

    DS goes to bed between 7pm and 9pm... sleeps till about 3am or 4am...eats then back to sleep till about 7 or 8am :)

    naps around9:30am, 1:15pm and 4:30/5....times change if were not home or he don't feel well.

    We're pretty close to this- she eats at 8pm or shortly before, sleeps til about 2, and then eats her first feeding of the day at 8. Our nap times are pretty similar.

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    imagenovembr2remembr:
    Thank you - I agree.  I'll keep up with the 7:00 bath, 7:30 feeding and 8:00 bed time.  Since he's up after 30 minutes of sleep though, I'll just have to work on keeping him down - a lot easier said then done!

    What about trying to move all this up a half hour? so a 6 or 6:30 bath, 7 feeding and then 7:30 bed? I just read a book that says to get LO to sleep better move their bedtimes up. 

    This. Unfortunately for the 2 working stiffs, we get home and immediately bathe DD (5:30 or 6), feed and she is in bed sleeping by 6:30/7.  It sucks that we don't get more play time with her, but it is a nightmare when she is up past 7:30.  She goes down early and sleeps 11-12 hours each night. 

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  • colenmikecolenmike member

    I agree with pp's I would try moving up his bedtime.  We couldn't figure out what was wrong with DD until I tried moving it up and H thought I was crazy but it works really well.

    We don't get home from daycare until 5:30 and she eats right away and falls asleep for about 20-30 minutes.

    Then we play a lot with her from 6-6:50ish and then if it's a night for a bath we do that and around 7:15 I feed her to sleep usually.  But around 6:45 she starts getting cranky and wants to sleep.

    We used to have her stay up until at least 8 and then she was up non stop.

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